[Dspace-general] Forthcoming digital repository meetings, 6-8 July 2005, Cambridge, UK

[Lee Courtney]

Peter et al,

> Immediately following this, a second DSpace Federation User Group meeting
> will be held, also at the University of Cambridge, on Thursday-Friday, 7-8
> July 2005.

Will the results of this meeting be posted to dspace.org?

Cheers,

Lee Courtney

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> Subject: [Dspace-general] Forthcoming digital repository meetings, 6-8
> July 2005, Cambridge, UK
>
>
> With apologies for cross-posting
> ---------------------------------
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Dates for your diary: 6/7/8 July 2005 at the University of Cambridge
>
> This is an initial announcement to let you know of two related
> meetings that
> you might wish to attend.
>
> The Digital Curation Centre is planning to hold a DCC workshop in
> the UK at
> the University of Cambridge on Wednesday 6 July 2005.
>
> Immediately following this, a second DSpace Federation User Group meeting
> will be held, also at the University of Cambridge, on Thursday-Friday, 7-8
> July 2005.
>
> The DCC workshop will be a training event on the long-term curation and
> preservation of institutional
> repositories (regardless of software platform).   The DSpace meeting will
> focus on issues specific to the use of the DSpace repository
> platform.   As
> some participants will want to attend both events, the organisers
> of the two
> meetings will co-ordinate registration and other arrangements as far as
> possible.
>
> Some preliminary information on the two events follows below.
>
> *******************************************************
>
> Digital Curation Centre workshop
>
> The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) was launched in November 2004
> following a
> recommendation in the JISC Continuing Access and Digital Preservation
> Strategy (October 2002). The current partners of the DCC are the
> University
> of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, UKOLN and the Council for the Central
> Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC). The DCC is not itself a data
> repository, nor do we attempt to impose policies and practices of
> one branch
> of scholarship upon another. Rather, based on insight from a vibrant
> research programme that addresses wider issues of data curation and
> long-term preservation, we will develop and offer programmes of
> outreach and
> practical services to assist those who must curate data. Rather than
> duplicate effort, we seek to complement and contribute to the
> endeavours of
> related organisations.
>
> Curation and preservation issues are integral to all digital
> repositories -
> regardless of platform. As such, the DCC are cooperating with DSpace to
> convene a one-day workshop to examine some of the major issues
> involved with
> the long-term access to and re-use of data held within digital
> repositories
> from a range of perspectives - including the HE/FE and e-science
> communities. Themes for this event may include:
>
> ·	workflow and business models for the long-term curation and
> sustainability of digital repositories
> ·	certification of digital repositories
> ·	roles and responsibilities
> ·	interoperability
> ·	metadata
> ·	policies
>
> These issues will be explored through a mixture of panel discussions,
> presentations, case studies and breakout sessions. The DCC is committed to
> nurturing strong community relationships and a major aim for this event is
> to create a forum for the sharing of experiences and ideas between a wide
> range of stakeholders.
>
> *******************************************************
>
> 2nd DSpace Federation User Group meeting
>
> The 1st DSpace Federation User Group meeting was held in Boston, USA, in
> March 2004.  Organised by the DSpace team at MIT Libraries, it was a very
> successful open 2-day meeting and was attended by approximately 120
> delegates drawn from ten different countries.   It included
> several plenary
> sessions and two parallel tracks, one focussing on technical
> issues and the
> other on organisational policy.  (For presentations and a summary report,
> see http://dspace.org/conference/conference.html)
>
> In the post-meeting evaluation it was concluded that many of the policy
> issues were essentially platform-independent and not specific to DSpace
> users, and that future discussion of such topics would be more appropriate
> in a broader forum of those interested in digital repositories.
> It followed
> that future meetings of the DSpace Federation - the international
> community
> of DSpace code contributors and users - should focus on issues that were
> more specific to the architecture and functionality of the DSpace
> platform.
>
> The 2nd DSpace Federation User Group meeting is now being planned
> with this
> in mind.  MIT Libraries have passed organisational responsibility for the
> meeting to colleagues at Cambridge University working on the
> DSpace at Cambridge project, a joint Cambridge-MIT initiative funded by the
> Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI).  The July 2005 meeting, which will
> be partly
> sponsored by CMI, will reflect both the need for a DSpace-specific agenda
> and the international character of the DSpace Federation.
>
> The formal Call For Papers and invitation to register will be issued
> shortly.
>
> --
> Peter Morgan
> Project Director, DSpace at Cambridge
> Cambridge University Library
> West Road
> Cambridge
> CB3 9DR
> UK
> email: pbm2 at cam.ac.uk
> tel: +44 (0)1223 333130
> fax: +44 (0)1223 339973
>
>
> Joy Davidson
> DCC Training Coordinator and ERPANET British Editor
> Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)
> George Service House, 11 University Gardens,
> University of Glasgow
> Glasgow G12 8QJ
> Scotland
> Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592
> Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788
> email: british.editor at erpanet.org
> http://www.dcc.ac.uk
> http://www.erpanet.org
>
>
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